God, my eyes... It was so painfull to watch. This match-up should be avoided in any possible way - apart from #1 and #2 seeds organisers at all tournaments should put these two in different halfs of draw despite the rankings.

Truly one of the greatest fifth sets I have ever seen, legendary stuff. Unreal points and I really thought Simon was going to pass out at some point.

Beginning of the fourth set when they were both injured, Monfils started slicing every forehand, Simon double faulted to give a break and just tanked the rest of the set was great too

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Federer, Nadal and Djokovic pander to plutocrats and charge huge appearance fees. The "trickle down effect" means that tournaments like the Heineken Open now have to pay appearance money for racketeers that many of us have never heard of. It's close to extortion.

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At the end of Federer's first round match at the Australian Open a fawning interviewer asked about his kids and if he had bought coach Stefan Edberg a birthday present - no, by the way, the privilege of knocking up with 'King Roger' was enough of a present apparently.